5 Parenting Tips to Maintain a Healthy Diet for Children
5 Parenting Tips to Maintain a Healthy Diet for Children (for the age group between 5 - 16 years) Serve a variety of vegetables, whether fresh, canned, frozen, or dry. Each week, try to include a variety of veggies, such as dark green, red, and orange vegetables, beans and peas, starchy vegetables, and others. Instead of fruit juice, encourage your youngster to eat a variety of fresh, canned, frozen, or dried fruits. If your child drinks juice, make sure it's 100% juice with no added sugars and restrict the amount he or she consumes. Look for canned fruit that is labeled as "light" or "packed in its own juice," indicating that it contains little or no added sugar. Keep in mind that a quarter cup of dried fruit is equivalent to one cup of fresh fruit. Dried fruits can add extra calories if consumed in excess. Provide foods with no added sugar or sugar alternatives. Sugars that have been refined (sucrose, glucose-fructose, white sugar), honey, molasses, syrups, an...